- Teacher: Valentina Borghesani
- Teacher: Marion Bouffier
- Teacher: Abigail Licata
This course aims to provide a state-of-the-art survey of the cognitive neuroscience of language, a rapidly developing multidisciplinary field at the intersection of linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience. The course will also provide an understanding of how different brain imaging methods are used to study different aspects of language processing, focusing on discussing what kinds of open questions about language processing can be currently investigated.
After a first introductory lecture, the course will cover:
- Developmental, acquired, and neurodegenerative disorders affecting language (week 2)
- Neuroimaging techniques and experimental paradigms that can be used to study language (week 3)
- Speech perception and production (week 4)
- Reading and writing (week 5)
- Semantics (week 6)
- Syntax and discourse (week 7)
- Sign language (week 8)
- Bilingualism (week 9)
- Animal communication (week 10)